Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Here’s something strange. I was doing my regular Google News search for “Obama,” “McCain,” and so on, when I came across an article from the Times Online titled “Democrats desert Barack Obama and turn towards the Republicans.” I clicked on it, but the page is missing from the Times Online website. (This is the link.)

The link to the article is still there on Google News as of this writing, but it might disappear, so here’s the proof:

I did a search for “Jessica Goral” on the Times Online website, but, again, nothing.  So I did a Google search for the name, and I found this. (Just to give you an idea of what kind of site it is, one of the comments on the article is: “Barack: “Where de white women at?” =D”.) The link at the end of that excerpt to the whole article on the Times Online website is also dead. So, at some point, the article was there, but now it’s gone…